Add packaging options to PLD products to meet communications and industrial design requirements.

Lattice Semiconductor announced that it has added new package options to its popular MachXO3 family of control PLDs to meet evolving design requirements in communications and industrial markets.

New MachXO3-9400 package options include those that reduce power consumption by operating at a core voltage of 1.2V to reduce heat generation, those that provide more FPGA logic resources for motor control and board management functions, and those that provide higher I/O counts optimized for server and storage applications. To support customers designing systems with the MachXO3, Lattice has also released a powerful and flexible evaluation board.

This evaluation board supports a variety of system architectures, including board management, embedded microcontroller I/O expansion, and video protocol bridging capabilities.

“The introduction of additional low-power options for the Lattice MarchXO3-9400 enables customers to add intelligence to power-sensitive applications at the edge,” said Joel Coplen, product marketing manager at Lattice Semiconductor. “Customers can develop a variety of solutions using the Lattice MachXO3-9400 evaluation board, including hardware management, more I/O or additional logic capabilities for embedded microcontrollers.”

The MachXO3-9400 evaluation board includes the MachXO3-9400 control PLD and the L-ASC10 Lattice hardware management expansion board. It also provides connectors for the Raspberry Pi 3, Arduino Zero, and other expansion boards. This evaluation board is ideal for designers looking to quickly and efficiently implement I/O expansion, coprocessing, motor control, and video bridging capabilities in their modern computing and industrial applications.